Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United States ... [He would probably be] more annoyed by [it] than by Wall Street ... It will take a long series of five-year plans before the Soviet woman can buy a dress, a hat or a pair of shoes for anything near the price a New York working girl paid for her Easter outfit...
...highest price the U.S. had ever paid for its security in peacetime-almost four times Franklin Roosevelt's entire first budget. But far from trying to trim it down, the U.S. House of Representatives last week added a few hundred millions of dollars to what President Truman had asked. Then with a heavy sense of urgency, some sane and some not-so-sane oratory, and a frank admission of helplessness, the House approved the record $15.9 billion defense bill...
Federal aid to education is long overdue. The $300,000,000 for this year will just be a beginning towards reviving an educational system that is in notoriously shaky shape. In Detroit, for example, rat catchers and garbage collectors get paid more than school teachers. In the South, which is financially less vigorous than Detroit, many teachers are paid starvation wages, and school buildings make Harvard Hall look like Lamont's Poetry Room...
...situation is neither difficult nor expensive to remedy. The telephone company can install pay phones now; the upkeep can be paid in the same way as it is for the other dormitories. The Union Committee, in its work of smoothing the way for freshmen, should see what can be done so that next year's Yardlings will not face the same predicament...
...plan to make working in a foundry pleasanter-and also cut down the danger of infection from dirt, acids, etc. The company pays 25? a day to every worker who takes a shower bath at the plant before going home. The company reported last week that it paid out $28,837 in 1948 shower money...